I have downloaded and using a package from Elsevier. To cite a reference I export a .bib
from Web of Science in the following format. Deliberately I changed "absolute" to "ABsolute" to test whether second capital letter will be corrected or not. I realized that if a pair of single curly braces {}
or double quotation marks ""
were used the correction was made but in case of double curly braces {{}}
it was not. I do not want to make changes in the format after copying .bib
due to ease of copying from Web of Science. Is there a way to solve this problem?
Case 1:
@article{ Label,
title = {ABsolute}
}
Case 2:
@article{ Label,
title = "ABsolute"
}
Case 3:
@article{ Label,
title = {{ABsolute}}
}
Output:
Case 1: Absolute
Case 2: Absolute
Case 3: ABsolute
Edit 1: Unfortunately, Web of Science provides title in upper cases.
Edit 2: To clarify, I have no other way to avoid double curly braces. Is there a way to still use double curly braces but make Latex to decapitalize as in the cases of 1 and 2.
Edit 3: The same problem is explained here. But it is said to avoid double curly braces which is not possible for me.
Edit 4: Below is what someone from Web of Science wrote to me:
According to our software development engineers, we need to keep these double braces within the BibTex export syntax, a full explanation of which is provided below.
- The outer braces are simply quote marks. In other words, in BibTeX this:
title = {Getting cold feet}
means exactly the same as this:
title = "Getting cold feet"
- The additional inner braces prevent BibTeX from adjusting the capitalization of the letters within them. They are used in many common cases where the choice of placement directly affects the output of data, as illustrated below with this made-up example article title:
"AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Here are some examples of capitalization schemes that BibTeX might be asked to apply:
- AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa (same as above - with only short prepositions and some other special words in lower case)
- AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa (all but proper nouns and acronyms in lower case, reputedly common usage in Europe)
- AIDS In Sub-Saharan Africa (all words capitalized - a possible default to cover difficult cases)
- AIDS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (all letters capitalized - some notable journals do require this)
The inner braces are used to mark letters and words whose capitalization is significant, like this:
title = {{AIDS} in sub-{S}aharan {A}frica}
If we simply omit the inner braces, the styles 2 and 3 above, one or both of which are reputedly very common in European usage, may be interpreted as something like this:
- Aids in sub-saharan africa
- Aids In Sub-saharan Africa
Web of Science output would not be able to place the inner braces automatically, consistently, and correctly on the basis of the databases that we use and in a manner that would satisfy everyone. Therefore our current implementation forces BibTeX to present the only capitalization that we know is more-or-less correct, which is the exact capitalization of the data that is actually present within the databases. For the above example, it means we output the data like this (hence the reason for the double braces):
title = {{AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa}}
A researcher who needs a different capitalization could perhaps inspect the capitalization that we provide, or possibly the item to which it refers, and then make an informed judgment about where they feel the inner braces actually belong. In our example already displayed above, the inner braces might be considered to belong in the following locations:
title = {{AIDS} in sub-{S}aharan {A}frica}
"
.."
or{
..}
) prohibits any automated (de)capitalization. – Werner Feb 19 '16 at 18:59title
field? – Werner Feb 19 '16 at 19:37